The funny thing is today, I bet the average age of Dean Martin fans is younger than Rolling Stones fans.
Im a fan of both Dean Martin and the Rolling Stones but the Rolling Stones are much, much preferred.
Best Rolling Stones performance can be see on YouTube by searching Rolling Stones gimme shelter Amsterdam 95. Lisa Fischer gives a performance that will raise the hair on your arms. If you are a Rolling Stones fan it is a must see.
The funny thing is today, I bet the average age of Dean Martin fans is younger than Rolling Stones fans.
Scary, but I fear you're right.
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Is this really true, or is this some kind of fabricated history made up by liberals to help further their own narrative about this country? I wasn't alive in the 50's, and I was very young in the 60's, so I don't have a strong recollection of that period. I used to take it as gospel that this was the case, given how it has been pounded into our craniums over the decades. But in the last year or so, I've really been questioning just how much of the written history of this country, pop culture or otherwise, from the past 100 years or so is truly authentic, and not just some made-up, Leftist fantasy designed to make Americans hate their own country. Given how they've lied pretty openly about global warming/climate change - and, well, pretty much everything - I'm thinking that I'm onto something. Maybe some of the older Freepers can set me straight, though.
Pretty nice performance by the Stones in that clip, book-ended by Martin’s “these punks will never play the Sands” attitude. They’re both nostalgia acts now.
I never have like the Rolling Stones and find Mick Jagger very, very disgusting, but I do pray for him. One time The LORD put him on my heart to pray for. This most certainly was not my idea.
In all of 50 years the Stones had never sunk as low as Dino did every time he recorded his show reading moronic idiocies off some early version of a teleprompter.
Brian Jones was pretty good with the harp, and Mick almost does a moonwalk a couple of times (to the cheers of whatever younger members were in the audience). It is also interesting to see Bill Wyman play the bass like it’s a hand-held stand-up bass, with the neck pointed straight up in the air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUunKPa9FuI
“Their music, both the hardcore blues aspects, and the blues-based rock, was too authentically black-sounding for white picket fence, white bread Mainstream America.”
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Shut.
Up.
While I grew up with the Stones I much prefer Deano these days. His voice was like liquid silk.
Mel
What a difference five years makes. Here they are at what I consider to be the height of their powers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e1_K-JDfOk
Good article. I cringed at the writer’s PC line about Dean’s crack being “homophobic”, but overall it was a neat bit of Stones’ history. Big fan of them and of Dean-o.
mark
BFL
“Their music, both the hardcore blues aspects, and the blues-based rock, was too authentically black-sounding for white picket fence, white bread Mainstream America.”
I didn’t need to read any further than this.
Hmmm...
I bet there weren't 5 negroes in 1964 who bought Rolling Stones records.
Since whites were out, and they sold millions of records...
Must have been "white Hispanics".
Rock history as told by wishful thinkers on both sides of the political spectrum 2012.
The fact is that radio was highly segregated in the early 1960s (isn’t it now still?) If the white stations played Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharpe out of the Philly Cameo-Parker hit factory of white owners, they didn’t play James Brown, Salomon Burke or Major Lance (who?), and the black stations (however they were called then escapes me for the moment, but that was before the ‘soul’ monicker), and those black stations might have played Del Shannon’s Runaway, ‘coz the DJs and the audience thought he was black.
In the UK there was one station that played everything and that was Radio Luxembourg, which is how the Stones caught up to it (besides the lively club blues scene, Alexis Korner, etc.)
No one on the radio played the Delta blues until Al Gore invented the FM channel, and what the general audience took as the blues were the minstrelized duo Sonny Brownie and Terry McGee, an early example of white guilt rewarding questionable performances (those two were authentic and good early on before becoming commercialized.)
No one sang or was allowed to sing “I Just Wanna Make Love to You) on white bread with mayo TV shows like Dean Martin’s before the Stones. Muddy Waters was widely unknown.